Author Topic: Getting started in Micro Stock (Read 8447 times)

leaf · « **on:** February 07, 2006, 10:11 »

I thought I would start a thread about getting started in micro stock in case people had questions. There are a number of people here with a fair bit of experience that I am sure would be more than happy to share any help they can give.

So those new to micro stock...
Confusion? Questions?

Clean42 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2006, 15:06 »

I am interested in microstock and have looked at several sites. Can someone tell me how many pics these sites require for the application. I want to have my best pics ready when I put in my application. I have looked at Shutterstock, IStock, Dreamstime, fotolia. Are there others that I should know about? Only working with 5.1 mp, so don't believe I can upload any large size pics. Thanks for any info you might have.

leaf · « **Reply #2 on:** February 08, 2006, 16:22 »

Well 5.1 mp isn't so bad.

I think you hit the big ones there. I think shutterstock requires 10 images to start submitting. Some of them don't have any minimum requirement.

I would sudjest for starters to submit to shutterstock. I think that will be the quickest place to make some money.
After that Istock has a really good track record if you can get images in there, and dreamstime as well.

Lower down on the pole are bigstock and fotolia, but they are also very high contenders.

Canstock... well I would only submit there if you have nothing else to do and you have uploaded everything to the other places.

Then there is the others, such as scanstock, gimmestock, stockphotomedia, crestock, ... but I have only had 1 or 2 downloads on those sites and have around 100-500 images on them.... I will upload more if they ever start getting a few more downloads but until then, it is a waste of time.

Hope that helps.

And welcome here

Clean42 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 08, 2006, 16:42 »

Thanks for the info. This is really helpful. We'll see how well I do at stock photography. This is a hobby for me, but I am looking forward to learning the different elements of creating good pictures.

leaf · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2006, 13:24 »

good luck.

the best thing is to just stick to it and keep to your goals. 2 images a week, 20 images a week, whatever it is keep to it and the images will add up (and so will the $$) in the end.

andersph · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2006, 16:24 »

How many pictures do you think I will have to upload before I can start expecting to earn $100/month on all the sites?

writer · « **Reply #6 on:** April 09, 2006, 15:15 »

Quote from: andersph on February 14, 2006, 16:24

How many pictures do you think I will have to upload before I can start expecting to earn $100/month on all the sites?

my friend makes USD 100 per month with 200 images on dreamstime. i've uploaded 135 images and i make about 20 bucks per month

GeoPappas · « **Reply #7 on:** April 09, 2006, 15:45 »

Shutterstock requires 10 photos for the registration. iStockphoto requires 3 photos. Dreamstime, 123RoyaltyFree, and Bigstockphoto don't require any.

I currently submit to all of the above except for SS at this time, but I will be soon. SS and IS are the top two. They will usually make up between 50% and 80% of total sales. Dreamstime is a great site and might become a solid third.

maggieddd · « **Reply #8 on:** April 09, 2006, 17:04 »

Can you be banned from any of these sites for a large amount of rejects?

CJPhoto · « **Reply #9 on:** April 11, 2006, 10:36 »

Yes. I beleive Shutterstock runs a warning system though I think you are allowed 5 per 6 month period. I have a reasonable reject ratio there and have onlyl had one warngin which was when I submitted a batch that were all rejected for noise.

Not sure about the other sites.

hawkeye · « **Reply #10 on:** April 19, 2006, 13:38 »

As I read the agreements, you can put the same photos on more that one service. Does anyone know if that is true? NOT your guess, but a "legal" answer.

thanks

GeoPappas · « **Reply #11 on:** April 19, 2006, 21:17 »

Yes, you can put your photos on more than one site as long as they are RF (royalty free) and you are not exclusive at any one site.

uploaderz · « **Reply #12 on:** April 20, 2006, 02:58 »

yep, geopappas says it right

You can put the images on as many sites as you want and long as you license them as Royalty Free (Which is the default license for basically every micro site, you usually don't get a choice)

The only exception would be
1. if you were exclusive with istock you would only be allowed to upload your images to istock (this pertains to EVERY royalty free image you want to sell)
2. if you license a certain image as exclusive with a certain site. Many sites offer this, such as dreamstime, fotolia, canstock... You generally get paid more for giving a certain site exclusive right to the image

fintastique · « **Reply #13 on:** April 21, 2006, 14:25 »

For any newbies I have collected a few bits of data regarding the different agencies, regarding mimumum size, earning etc.

If you don't have time to read all the text the tables especially the last one should answer a lot of questions.

Steve
www.fintastique.com/guide.htm

leaf · « **Reply #14 on:** April 21, 2006, 14:33 »

yes, that's quite the thorough table you have, nice work.

photovan · « **Reply #15 on:** April 21, 2006, 20:40 »

Great info. I put a link to your site on a forum called www.workingnomad.com in a thread that is collecting info for people who want to work on-line while traveling.

leaf · « **Reply #16 on:** April 22, 2006, 02:17 »

interesting site photovan.... sounds like a good idea/adventure

ICP · « **Reply #17 on:** August 20, 2012, 17:43 »

Quote from: fintastique on April 21, 2006, 14:25

For any newbies I have collected a few bits of data regarding the different agencies, regarding mimumum size, earning etc.

If you don't have time to read all the text the tables especially the last one should answer a lot of questions.

Steve
www.fintastique.com/guide.htm

Nice bit of work. Looks like a lot of useful information for everyone, not just newbies.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 21, 2012, 07:47 »

Ancient thread alert ah those were the days!

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